Daily Newsletter | Sunday, April 02, 2017
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As booze shops along highways go dry, states stare at massive losses |
As watering holes along highways went dry after the Supreme Court made it clear on Friday that the ban on sale of liquor within 500 metres of highways across the country will now extend to pubs, bars and hotels on the highways, most states are left staring at big revenue losses in the impact. |
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Love kills 6 times more Indians than terror |
Between 2001 and 2015, love was the officially recorded reason for 38,585 murders and culpable homicide cases. Government records also link it with 79,189 suicides. Further, 2.6 lakh kidnapping cases were also filed in this period where marriage was mentioned as the motive of ‘abducting’ women. |
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Modi was right, Mulayam says as he tears into son |
Accusing Akhilesh of insulting him in the run-up to UP polls, Mulayam Singh Yadav said on Saturday that PM Modi was right when he had said that a son who was not loyal to his father couldn’t be loyal to anyone else. “Ye sahi hai ki jo baap ka nahin hua, wo kisi ka nahin ho sakta,” Mulayam said. |
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NGT dismayed by tehsildar’s inspection of Korna site |
National Green Tribunal, Bhopal, expressed displeasure over the quality of the inspection report submitted by authorities on the matter of the proposed location of a power substation in Pachpadra tehsil of Barmer. In September last year, the government had proposed a site in Korna village, which serves as a rich catchment area. |
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Man kills lover, ends life in Tamil Nadu |
Police on Friday found a 25-year-old man hanging from a tree branch in Mamallapuram, while his girlfriend was found bludgeoned to death in a casuarina grove nearby. |
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EPL: Crystal Palace stun leaders Chelsea 2-1 |
Chelsea’s march towards the Premier League title was stalled as goals from Wilfried Zaha and Christian Benteke earned Crystal Palace a shock 2-1 victory at Stamford Bridge on Saturday. |
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State Bank of Hyderabad slides into history |
Seventy-five years after it was set up to manage the currency of Nizams, the State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH) on Saturday became part of history with its merger with the State Bank of India (SBI). |
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